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London Photography Exhibitions July 2018

The Black Lives Matter movement in the United States has been a focus of interest recently. As a result it seems timely that there are two London photography exhibitions added to the list this week, championing human rights and celebrating the impact of African Americans. Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop has his first London solo exhibition. Liberty / Diaspora at Autograph looks at the fight for freedom and human rights in Africa as well as the diaspora. Meanwhile at Somerset House, The Influence Project celebrates the global impact of African American musicians.

Meanwhile, there is a lot of other photography around the capital worth a look this week. Shape of Light continues at Tate Modern while on the other side of the river at Barbican you can see Dorothea Lange. Influential Cindy Sherman continues her exhibition at Sprüth Magers while in Camden there is an interesting Peter Fraser display.

Some photography exhibitions in London are coming to an end. These include the Jacques Henri Lartigue display at Michael Hoppen, together with the one at Paul Smith. August Sander: Men without Masks is another show ending this weekend. Read on for further details on these as well as others.

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Autograph present Omar Victor Diop’s first solo UK exhibition. The gallery is at Rivington Place in Shoreditch. Shoreditch High Street London Overground station as well as Boxpark Shoreditch are just a few minutes’ walk. Liverpool Street station is also close; about 900 metres.

The Influence Project

Free admission. The Influence Project celebrates the global impact of African American musicians. The work on display was made by photographer Alexis Chabala. The display is in the East Wing Galleries at Somerset House.

Somerset House is on the Strand. The nearest underground stations are Temple and Covent Garden together with Holborn. There are plenty of places to eat nearby on the Strand as well as in Covent Garden.

Peter Fraser: Mathematics

Peter Fraser together with fellow British photographers Martin Parr and Paul Graham, was a colour photography pioneer. He is known for taking a ‘Master painter‘ approach not only to colour but also paying great attention to composition, light and shadows. One of Peter Fraser’s profound influences is the 1977 film Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames. The focus of one scene of the film is how small particles, which constitute larger complex particles, can themselves appear complex. This complexity is revealed while magnifying objects by powers of ten. This influence is evident in his photography. Often it seems he is holding a magnifying glass up to ordinary every objects.

Camden Arts Centre present Peter Fraser’s most recent body of work. Mathematics looks at how time, space and everything within it can be described using maths. The exhibition unites an apparently disparate range of photographic subjects. The images draw our attention to the underlying patterns and forces which shape our perception of the universe.

Camden Arts is just off on the Finchley Road. The centre is moments from Finchley Road & Frognall Overground station while Hampstead underground station is a little further. Hamsptead station is around a 15 minute walk.

Auguste Rodin: The Photographs

Huxley-Parlour present an exhibition of 30 vintage photographs taken at Rodin’s studio. Photographs of ‘The Burghers of Calais’, ‘Monument to Balzac’ and ‘Eternal Springtime’ are on show. The images were taken by Jacques-Ernest Bulloz and Eugène Druet as well as Pierre Choumoff.

AKTION: Conceptual Art And Photography (1960 – 1980)

In brief, AKTION investigates the Conceptual art movement over two decades of photography. In particular, the exhibition explores Conceptual art photography practices dealing with Feminism and political activism together with performance and social critique. The exhibition takes in 26 artists including Eleanor Antinand Dennis Oppenheim as well as Ger van Elk.

Richard Saltoun is in Dover Street in Mayfair and an equally short walk from Green Park or Bond Street stations. There are also a few other photography galleries on neighbouring streets.

I Want to Live

Photographer Daniel Reagan took pictures while working on a project at a suicide respite centre. Uniquely, Maytree is a suicide refuge centre occupying a space between professional medical support and volunteer helplines. The project focuses on staff as well as patients. Daniel Reagan is a suicide survivor and investigates what brings people to volunteer to help those in suicidal crisis together with the impact on their own mental health.

Free Space Project is at Kentish Town Health Centre and Kentish Town West as well as Camden Road train stations a short distance away. Maytree is a registered charity and you can make donations via the Maytree website.

Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing

Barbican Centre

Dorothea Lange is probably best known for her work for the U.S. Farm Security Agency during the Great Depression. Roy E. Stryker who was head of the Information Division at FSA commissioned Dorothea Lange as well as Walker Evans and Gordon Parks amongst others. Consequently, they set out to catalogue the struggles of rural life. Significantly, some 77,000 prints were made from 164,000 developed negatives.

Barbican present the first ever British Dorothea Lange retrospective. She is recognised as a proto-feminist as well as a “powerful woman of unparalleled vigour and resilience”. There is a gallery devoted to the Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson, with five variations as well as previous shots.

This exciting display at Sprüth Magers features new work from Cindy Sherman’s latest series. The 2016 series stars Sherman as the ‘grandes dames’ of 1920s Hollywood cinema. The photographs on show are created using dye sublimation: heat is used to transfer the dye directly onto metal. Notably, no glass protection is needed. Consequently, the images appear more immediate and vital.

Sprüth Magers is in Mayfair, and just a short walk from Green Park tube station and also Bond Street. If the weather’s good it might be worth getting a sandwich to eat on a bench in Berkeley Square.

The rare, large scale photographs on show at Hauser & Wirth in ‘Men without Masks’ are impressive. Sander chose to stick with older large format technology rather than the then, new, Leica camera in order to capture more detail. The oversize printing in the exhibition showcases this fine detail on the faces of the sitters. Not only the quality of the printing but also the number of portraits on show make the show outstanding.

Hauser & Wirth are on Saville Row with Oxford Circus and Piccadilly London Underground stations only a short walk. There are almost as many photography galleries as tailors in the area, with Huxley-Parlour as well as The Photographers’ Gallery a few minutes’ walk away.

Jacques Henri Lartigue: C’est Chic

Michael Hoppen Gallery in Chelsea

Closing soon. French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue is known for his shots of Parisian fashion models as well as his friends and family. He is such a giant of photography, that it is impossible to imagine the 20th century photographic landscape without him. Lartigue pursued photography for his love of the art and also to document what he held precious. He was hailed as a founder of modern photography yet his work had limited influence on the development of photography during the twentieth century. This is because much of his work virtually unknown until half a century after he reach his artistic peak.

Paul Smith has curated two concurrent London exhibitions to celebrate Lartigue. This one at Michael Hoppen Gallery in Chelsea like teh other at Paul Smith, Covent Garden bring to light some rare treats. The focus is Lartigue’s magical eye. ‘Effortlessly chic‘ work from three decades 1950s, 60s and 70s, is featured.

Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art

Tate Modern Boiler House, South Bank.

The Shape of Lights is a stunning celebration of 100 years of photography and abstract art. This is the first major exhibition to explore that relationship between photography and abstract art. The show features not only the fathers of art photography like Alfred Stieglitz and László Moholy-Nagy; modern masters such as Thomas Ruff are also included.

Tate Modern is on the South Bank of the Thames, and just a few minutes’ walk from St. Paul’s tube station. The show seems like a perfect drop-in on a walk along the South Bank on a sunny spring day. There is also some fantastic photography on show on permanent display. As an example, you will find work from Martin Parr’s ‘Last Resort’ and an equally interesting display of work by Karl Blossfeldt and Germaine Krull. Equally important: there is no admission fee to see this work in the permanent collection. There is an optional donation instead of an admission fee though.

London Photography Exhibitions July 2018

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